Armchair and table

The young deceased Sándor Borz Kováts (1940–1973) was one of the most talented Hungarian designers of the second half of the past century. However most of his furniture designs have never been mass-produced, they exist only as prototypes.
Considering its construction and form the red armchair is an outstanding work and it was fabricated by Borz himself. It is made of molded fiberglass, with a technology that is often used for boat building. The furniture was presented at the Ernst Museum in 1970, at the National Exhibition of Hungarian Interior Architects, without upholstery at the time. Later, on the recommen - dation of the applied arts profession, the State purchased them for the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts. Before the object was acquired into the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts, Borz Kováts asked his friend, Judit Görgényi, to create the upholstery for the chair from Duvetyne, or chamois.
The chair and the table evoke the spirit of contemporary Italian design. The table is most reminiscent of Eero Aarnio’s “Chan - terelle” table, which dates to 1970, but it also demon - strates a kinship with Rodolfo Bonetto’s Quattro Quarti table, while the forms of the chair show an affinity in their shaping to Rodolfo Bonetto’s “Melaina” chair. by Judit Horváth, PhD